Early Morning
I've been waking up in the 8am hour on the weekends...when I've been getting enough sleep the week prior. I guess I had good sleep this past week because here I am...bright eyed and bushy tailed! I'm ready to go out and take a 2 mile walk as soon as I'm done writing this journal. Then I have a few things I need to get done today...I need to go to the Library, get an oil change...and that's about it that I NEED to get done.
On Tuesday this week, I had a picnic lunch at a park called "The Rookery" with Paula at work. Paula...I can't say enough great things about her. She's an older lady, probably late 40's (I'm guessing, and I'm bad at guessing ages). I refer her at home to my parents as "The Eternally Happy Lady". That's my best description of her, I've never, EVER met anyone like her. You'd think it would be annoying, but it's not...at least not to me. I love it, I love hearing her talk, I love being around her...it makes me really happy to just be near her. She's just as new as I am to the company...she started two days before I did. I always get along better with the "older crowd" than I do with people my age. Anyways, what I'm getting at here, is that we ate at a park and it was AWESOME! It was sooo quiet, you can't hear the roads anywhere, no traffic, nothing, just birds chirping and the usual nature sounds. Well, I decided today that since my boyfriend doesn't take me to any parks like I want, I'll go back to The Rookery today solo with my binoculars and digital camera. I read online that there's a lot of Great Blue Herons there. Here's what the website says:
Located in an old glacial lakebed, much of the land within The Rookery is considered wetland. Open marshes and swamp forests - enhanced by the work of beavers - are found throughout the park, as are several abandoned oxbows of the original channel of the Chagrin River.
The property surrounding the Silo Picnic Area is brush land - a transition from agriculture to woodland. A beech-maple forest and several red-maple stands provide habitat for a variety of animals, including songbirds such as wood thrush and veery.
A large forested preserve protects cold water habitat for a threatened species of native brook trout, introduced by the Ohio Department of Natural Resource’s Division of Wildlife.
One of the largest great blue heron rookeries in the county is located within the park's preserve. Herons rest in tree-top colonies of a few to several hundred nests. The isolated colony at The Rookery has been in existence for more than 60 years and has more than 150 active nests.
Hmm! I'm totally gonna go. I have my digital camera batteries charging right now! But first I have to take my walk and then run those two errands (hardly errands, lol). I'm feeling quite positive today :)
On Tuesday this week, I had a picnic lunch at a park called "The Rookery" with Paula at work. Paula...I can't say enough great things about her. She's an older lady, probably late 40's (I'm guessing, and I'm bad at guessing ages). I refer her at home to my parents as "The Eternally Happy Lady". That's my best description of her, I've never, EVER met anyone like her. You'd think it would be annoying, but it's not...at least not to me. I love it, I love hearing her talk, I love being around her...it makes me really happy to just be near her. She's just as new as I am to the company...she started two days before I did. I always get along better with the "older crowd" than I do with people my age. Anyways, what I'm getting at here, is that we ate at a park and it was AWESOME! It was sooo quiet, you can't hear the roads anywhere, no traffic, nothing, just birds chirping and the usual nature sounds. Well, I decided today that since my boyfriend doesn't take me to any parks like I want, I'll go back to The Rookery today solo with my binoculars and digital camera. I read online that there's a lot of Great Blue Herons there. Here's what the website says:
Located in an old glacial lakebed, much of the land within The Rookery is considered wetland. Open marshes and swamp forests - enhanced by the work of beavers - are found throughout the park, as are several abandoned oxbows of the original channel of the Chagrin River.
The property surrounding the Silo Picnic Area is brush land - a transition from agriculture to woodland. A beech-maple forest and several red-maple stands provide habitat for a variety of animals, including songbirds such as wood thrush and veery.
A large forested preserve protects cold water habitat for a threatened species of native brook trout, introduced by the Ohio Department of Natural Resource’s Division of Wildlife.
One of the largest great blue heron rookeries in the county is located within the park's preserve. Herons rest in tree-top colonies of a few to several hundred nests. The isolated colony at The Rookery has been in existence for more than 60 years and has more than 150 active nests.
Hmm! I'm totally gonna go. I have my digital camera batteries charging right now! But first I have to take my walk and then run those two errands (hardly errands, lol). I'm feeling quite positive today :)